Volume 9 (2013) Article 17 pp. 587-592 [Note]
Special Issue on Analysis of Boolean Functions

A Monotone Function Given By a Low-Depth Decision Tree That Is Not an Approximate Junta

by Daniel Kane

Received: April 23, 2012
Revised: September 18, 2012
Published: June 10, 2013

We present a family a monotone functions $f_d:\{0,1\}^n\rightarrow\{0,1\}$ so that $f_d$ can be computed as a depth-$d$ decision tree and so that $f_d$ disagrees with any $k$-junta on a constant fraction of inputs for any $k = \exp(o(\sqrt{d})).$ This gives a negative answer to a problem circulated independently by Elad Verbin and by Rocco Servedio and Li-Yang Tan.

DOI: 10.4086/toc.2013.v009a017

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